From Vancover to Vienna – Interiview with Michel Sidibé, Executive Director of UNAIDS, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, and Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations
Q.What changed from Vancouver to Vienna? At the time of the International AIDS Conference in Vancouver, we were stuck in the emergency phase of the global AIDS response. Less than $300M were available in global resources, experimental treatment was just being introduced, and HIV was still considered to be a death sentence. In the last 15 years, we have broken conspiracy of silence about the magnitude and impact of the epidemic. The rapid scale-up of AIDS programmes and services,…
